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Straight Flossin' and Other Stories of the American West - by Danny Nielsen (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Sifting through the scraps of the the American Dream and discovering those who still hope...Stories of driving the open road, bird counts, rat research, close calls with fires and skunks, mixing it up with the local color, the eternal search for shade...and a grand finale at a frenetic ecological conference in Portland.
- Author(s): Danny Nielsen
- 112 Pages
- Nature, Ecosystems & Habitats
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Sifting through the scraps of the the American Dream and discovering those who still hope...Stories of driving the open road, bird counts, rat research, close calls with fires and skunks, mixing it up with the local color, the eternal search for shade...and a grand finale at a frenetic ecological conference in Portland.
Review Quotes
Straight Flossin' is a wild ride into the inspiring and intimidating vastness of the desert West. Whether he's trapping packrats as a field biologist or racing to escape a devastating wildfire, Danny Nielsen's stories are lively, thoughtful, and engaging. His love for these arid wilds comes through on every page, as does his concern for how human transformation of the landscape is putting the wild magic at risk. As a fellow desert rat, I loved riding shotgun on this book's well-told adventures in America's immense outback.
--Michael P. Branch, author of How to Cuss in Western and On the Trail of the Jackalope